The Democrat Thread

[southsider2k5]

On a different subject, Washington Post Media critic Howard Kurtz today has a classic example of a major issue in the media. He writes a column about whether African American reporters can appropriately and fairly cover the Obamas, and whether female African Americans can appropriately be critical of Michele Obama in particular.

 

Maybe he's right, maybe they truly can't be objective because they're the same race. But what's the one question that doesn't get asked in reply? Can a white reporter fairly cover a white politician? Why of course they can, why would anyone think that's a problem! Being white and male is normal, right!?

 

Which would bring up the next question about Can a vast majority Democratic media cover Democrats fairly?

[Balta1701]

http://badpaintingsofbarackobama.com/

[lostfan]

Which would bring up the next question about Can a vast majority Democratic media cover Democrats fairly?

*yawn*

[BigSqwert]

I read Sullivan's blog daily and it's been entertaining, to say the least, to witness his barrage on Sarah Palin. And the only reason people like him are not letting it go is because she is still considered one of the 2012 front runners.

 

Here's the latest entry on Palin.

[Soxy]

http://badpaintingsofbarackobama.com/

Wow, that delivered exactly what it promises. People are weird.

[bmags]

I actually liked one of them.

[Balta1701]

I read Sullivan's blog daily and it's been entertaining, to say the least, to witness his barrage on Sarah Palin. And the only reason people like him are not letting it go is because she is still considered one of the 2012 front runners.

 

Here's the latest entry on Palin.

I love it when random things I post supplies other people with their avatars.

[Balta1701]

I think that Lyndon Johnson didn't just roll over in his grave, I think he must have soiled himself as well from this statement.

Reid says he expects the tactic of gentle persuasion to work best, given the size of his Senate Democratic flock and the political divergences within it. “I don’t dictate how people vote,” he said in an interview this month. “If it’s an important vote, I try to tell them how important it is to the Senate, the country, the president ... But I’m not very good at twisting arms. I try to be more verbal and non-threatening. So there are going to be — I’m sure — a number of opportunities for people who have different opinions not to vote the way that I think they should. But that’s the way it is. I hold no grudges.”

[HuskyCaucasian]

Apple rejects iPhone app featuring Obama's "HOPE" portrait because it is "inappropriate"

Start Mobile has managed to get 18 separate iPhone applications approved by Apple. So you’ll imagine their surprise when one of them was recently rejected. But you may be even more surprised to find out why.

 

Apparently, Apple doesn’t like the way one piece of art in the app depicts President Obama. Is it out of line or tasteless? Well, you can determine for yourself, because you’ve undoubtedly seen the art in question before: It’s Shepard Fairey’s famous “HOPE” image of Obama that was everywhere during his Presidential campaign.

 

So why on Earth would this be rejected? Well, here’s the wording in the rejection:

It contain

s

content that ridicule

s

public figure

s

and i

s

in violation of

S

ection 3.3.12 from the iPhone

S

D

K

Agreement which

s

tate

s

:

“

Application

s

mu

s

t not contain any ob

s

cene, pornographic, offen

s

ive or defamatory content or material

s

of any

k

ind (text, graphic

s

, image

s

, photograph

s

, etc.), or other content or material

s

that in Apple

’

s

rea

s

onable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch u

s

er

s

.

”

“Ridicules public figures”? This image is hanging in the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian — yet, Apple apparently finds it inappropriate.

[BearSox]

Good for Apple

[Rex Kickass]

I think that Lyndon Johnson didn't just roll over in his grave, I think he must have soiled himself as well from this statement.

 

I wish some Senators with balls would look to oust Reid from the leadership.

[bmags]

probably the most ineffectual leader in the history of this country that gets a load of s*** from the other side for taking the country in the wrong direction. Reid takes no one in any direction. He merely is.

[lostfan]

Just once I'd like to see him make the Republicans actually filibuster when they threaten to.

 

Say what you want about Pelosi and not liking her (I don't) but her caucus is whipped into shape and she'd probably be a better Senate leader than Reid is. And although sometimes she is a political liability, when the president needs votes she gets them.

Edited July 4, 2009 by lostfan

[Rex Kickass]

Just once I'd like to see him make the Republicans actually filibuster when they threaten to.

 

Say what you want about Pelosi and not liking her (I don't) but her caucus is whipped into shape and she'd probably be a better Senate leader than Reid is. And although sometimes she is a political liability, when the president needs votes she gets them.

 

That's why for all her faults, there's no push for a challenge to the position - she's good at working her caucus. The Senate is different, but a majority leader needs to have some balls.

[bmags]

I mean, he's from Nevada, we should've seen this coming.

[Soxbadger]

I thought there were some copyright issues with the photo that was used to make that poster, and that the photographer may be claiming copyright infringement.

 

Which would be a pretty good reason why Apple would stay the away from it until all of that is sorted out.

[lostfan]

I never knew that Al Franken graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.

[GoSox05]

I never knew that Al Franken graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.

 

I think that gets lost because he was a comedian and on SNL.

[lostfan]

I think that gets lost because he was a comedian and on SNL.

Yeah he gets compared to people like Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh etc. a lot. But which one of those 3 graduated college? O'Reilly is a better comparison.

[southsider2k5]

Yeah he gets compared to people like Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh etc. a lot. But which one of those 3 graduated college? O'Reilly is a better comparison.

 

Well to be fair, it was because he played Hannity/LImbaugh of the left for years on the radio...

[HuskyCaucasian]

Yeah he gets compared to people like Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh etc. a lot. But which one of those 3 graduated college? O'Reilly is a better comparison.

Has Franken gone out of his way to fake cry on national TV because he loves his country so much he doesnt want it to go to hell?

[GoSox05]

Well to be fair, it was because he played Hannity/LImbaugh of the left for years on the radio...

 

 

How was he at all like those two?

[lostfan]

Well to be fair, it was because he played Hannity/LImbaugh of the left for years on the radio...

He's more like O'Reilly or Ingraham. Or... s*** even Ann Coulter although he is nowhere near as much of an ignorant condescending asshole. But those people actually went to school and have qualifications.

[lostfan]

How was he at all like those two?

Liberal talk radio personality? Sometimes controversial?

[Balta1701]

Liberal talk radio personality? Sometimes controversial?

The things people on my side will come back to in order to defend him is that he's actually a legitimate policy wonk. He could sit down with top people from think tanks and go on about policy details with the best of them. He went from being a comedian with a political bent to expanding his political thoughts on a radio show with a non-trivial amount of policy details thrown in to actually organizing and running a campaign for the Senate. You could sit him down tomorrow and go through the health care debate, and the next day he could explain to you the finer intricacies of the difference between a carbon tax and a cap and trade system.